· We read books about farms and the things you might find on them like animals and farm equipment.
· At Large Group:
· We have several animal x-rays displayed on our window. We talked about what x-rays are used for and took turns guessing what animal each x-ray was of. Then we looked at pictures of the actual animals.
· We had a real veterinarian visit our school on Thursday to talk to us about working with animals. **Unfortunately due to the snow days we had this week this was canceled, but we are working on rescheduling it.**
· We sang the song “Old McDonald Had a Farm” and practiced all our animal sounds and our animal movements.
· At Small Group:
· We sorted and classified our toy animals into several groups (color, size, and where the animals live).
· We talked about what happens during spring and then drew pictures of what spring looks like. These pictures and many other art creations will go up on our "What Does Spring Look Like?" bulletin board.
· We used our “Color Me Healthy” curriculum to talk about several farm animals (cows, pigs, chickens, sheep, etc.) and which foods they provide us with (milk, beef, bacon, ham, chicken, and wool).
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| We found this activity here! |
· At Choice Time:
· We are still enjoying our pet store/vet dramatic play area. The kiddos have tiny scrubs to wear, vet exam tools, pet food and medicine, a wash tub, books about pets and vets, and of course plenty of stuffed animals to play with.
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| They were "putting the animals to bed so they would feel better". |
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| One of our kiddos fell asleep, too. ;) |
· We put corn into our sensory table and the kiddos added farm animals and paper that resembles hay.
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| They were actually excited to clean up their messes here. It is also great fine motor muscle practice. :) |
- In the block area:
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| Making a tower for the pets. |
- In the Art Area:
- In the Toys and Games Area:
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| Our kiddos really enjoy playing memory/matching games. This one was from the movie Toy Story 3. |
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| Green lime scented play dough in honor of St. Patrick's Day! |
· This week we studied the letter S. Some of our activities include:
· Practicing saying the sound the letter makes.
· Seeing who has the letter in their name.
· Using white boards to practice writing the letter at large group.
· Searching the room for things that start with the letter of the week and feeding them to the “letter monster”.
· Making our alphabet book page for each letter at small group.
· Identifying the letter in the dry erase board sentence.
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